For a young lady, Rosemary Naife, life is no longer fair to her as she continue facing rejection from admirers and friends who used to envy her skin colour and beauty before she was bath acid barely two years ago by ex-lover, Paul Nwokobia, whom she claimed was culprit behind her deformation.

Even if she could afford means of providing herself plastic surgery, to the 25 years Delta state queen, no miracle can return her lost physique, not to talk of trauma she undergo daily anytime she remembers her former envious shape and discrimination confronts in public.

At night, she feels in different world because of darkness that covers her from shame, but as soon sun rise, she becomes uncomfortable with herself due to her horrible look; one side of her head been washed off by the acid poured on her unaware.

Shortly before the incident, Nnaife was known as a dazzling lady with lot of admirers in her area, but Paul was the regular man she moved with until things tore apart between the two, and seem not reconcilable.

​Some unidentified security operatives, Wednesday, January 4, invaded one of the homes of the Ex-First Lady, Patience Jonathan and carted away some valuables.

Patience Jonathan, former First Lady

In the video footage, the security operatives are seen driving away in two white Hilux vans and a white bus after the raid at the Abuja house.
The reason for the raid is not fully available as at press time but speculations indicate it could not be unconnected with alleged embezzlement of public funds while the former First Lady was in office.

Former president Goodluck Jonathan himself after his tenure was criticised by some civil rights groups that he aided corruption under his watch as the nation’s leader.

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​The President-elect of Gambia, Adama Barrow, is alive contrary to rumours of his assassination on social media.

Incumbent president of The Gambia Yahya Jammeh

Multiple sources in Gambia confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that Mr. Barrow is alive.

Jeffery Smith, a journalist with Vanguard Africa, confirmed that Mr. Barrow was alive.

Another Gambian journalist, Demba Kandeh, also confirmed same to PREMIUM TIMES.

Mr. Barrow has remained in Gambia to ensure he is sworn in as president on January 19 after he defeated outgoing leader, Yahya Jammeh, in the December 1 election.

Mr. Jammeh, who initially conceded to his opponent, later recanted and has since vowed to stay on in office.

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently leading a West African, ECOWAS, mediation asking Mr. Jammeh to step down.

The Nigerian government on Wednesday said it still hoped to resolve the Gambian conflict peacefully after Mr. Jammeh accused ECOWAS of declaring war on Gambia by insisting that all options including military deployment were on the table to make Mr. Jammeh leave power.

​The founder of Mountain of Fire Ministries, MFM, Pastor D.K Olukoya has said he and his church members don’t celebrate Christmas because it’s “demonic.”

According to Daily Posts reports, he said it during the New Year service of his church.

Pastor Olukoya, General Overseer of MFM

The General overseer said, “In Mountain of Fire, we don’t celebrate Christmas because the root is demonic.”

He also said, “Many a Nigerian pastor swathes himself in that rapacious cloak even as it evolves into an iron cage from which he mesmerizes his habitually-gullible followers, leading them on by a leash, into his iron cage.

“It is on scriptural records that Jesus Christ, when winding up his mission of salvation about two thousand years ago, expressed his ambivalence about finding faith in the world when he returns.

“He must have seen with precision the impending decadence awaiting Christendom after his departure.”

He also urged people to be mindful of their criticisms of men of God. “Be careful what you say about a man of God,”

​Isyaka Dahiru, who hails from Nasarawa state, got married to two women on the same day.

When he was asked the reason for the decision, he said that he married both wives because he loves them both to the same degree. Mr Dahiru also added that some marital issues he had with his ex-wife further prompted his decision.

Speaking to Daily Nigerian on Sunday, Mr. Dahiru said:“I have been dating one of the wives, Rashida, since before I divorced my first wife. My life ambition was to marry only two wives. But after the divorce, I met Khadija at my workplace and I fell in love with her.

Isyaka Dahiru and his two wives

“There is good understanding among us. They call themselves sisters, eat together in the same plate. They are just sisters.“I love them both with equal degree. They showed me deep love and care too. They possess everything I need in a woman. So I couldn’t resist marrying them both at a time.”

When he was asked if he would take another pair in future, Mr. Dahiru simply replied that nobody knows tomorrow.

Announcing the wedding, Mr. Dahiru, who was born Born on June 23, 1987, wrote: “The family of late Mallam Dahiru Ahmed invites the general public to the weeding fatiha of his son Isyaka Dahiru (Smiling Judge) and Khadijat and Rashida, which is scheduled to take place on 31/12/2016 at Muhd Adi residence behind RCM School Doma, off Ruttu Road by 10am.”

The second wedding took place an hour later at Sakora Dakashi Street off Lafia Road, while reception followed immediately at the groom’s residence along Lafia Road in Doma Local Government Area.

Daily Nigerian could not reach the groom for comments, but sources described him as industrious person.

​U.S. 115th congress has re-elected Representative Paul Ryan as speaker of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, January 3 as a Republican-led Congress began a new session.

Speaker Paul Ryan

It was gathered that the Wisconsin congressman was elected on a vote of 239-189 and until his re-election, had served as speaker in October 2015, after his predecessor John Boehner retired following repeated revolts by House conservatives.

Meanwhile, The re-elected house speaker addressed 115th congress as he resume office immediately as leader of the house, swore in members of the floor.

​A pilot who allegedly passed out in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 in Canada has been arrested on suspicion of being drunk.

Police in Calgary say Capt. Miroslav Gronych was “behaving oddly before he became unconscious in the cockpit” on Saturday, December 31, 2016.

According to CNN, the plane with 99 passengers and six crew members, was scheduled to fly to Regina before heading to Winnipeg and Cancun, Mexico.

Gronych, a 37-year-old Slovak national, was charged with having control of an aircraft while impaired.

“Initial tests conducted by police indicate the pilot was severely impaired by alcohol,” police said in a statement.

Budget airline Sunwing apologized for their pilot’s behaviour and commended the rest of the crew for their diligence in handling what they described as a “very unfortunate matter.”

The airline statement read: “Dear Customers, we will like to take the opportunity to advise you of an incident that occurred earlier this morning.

“We can confirm that shortly before 7 a.m. local time, the gate agents, first officer and crew of Sunwing flight 595, departing from Calgary and destined for Cancun, determined that the Captain was unfit to fly and reported this accordingly.

“The Captain was immediately escorted off of the aircraft and the incident is now under investigation with local authorities.

“We are very appreciative of our crew’s diligence in handling this very unfortunate matter in accordance with procedures.

“We were able to secure a new Captain and are pleased to report that our customers are now en route to their destination after experiencing a minimal delay.

“We are very apologetic for any upset that this has caused and would like to assure our customers that safety remains our utmost priority.”

Sunwing said the plane took off a short time after with a different pilot.

* Arsenal FC beat Crystal Palace 2-0 in the English Premier League match on Sunday, January 1, 2017 to open an account that they are indeed title contenders

* One time out of favour striker, Frenchman Olivier Giroud started the victory party by scoring a sumptuous scorpion goal that made everyone ecstatic

The race for who becomes the Premier League king continues as Arsenal Football Club brushed past Crystal Palace at the Emirates yesterday by two unreplied goals to show they are real title contenders and not pretenders.

Olivier Giroud put the ball into the net in the first half when Arsenal dangerman Alexis Sanchez crossed the ball to him, before Alex Iwobi scored a looping header to put the match beyond their visitors, Crystal Palace. The goal by Giroud was a statement by the former Ligue One player that he deserves a permanent first team shirt with the Gunners.

The Frenchman striker’s goal was a bit similar to Manchester United Henrik Mikhitaryn’s scorpion goal in a recent EPL match. However, the Arsenal goal poacher’s own was out of this world.